איוב 15
| ויען אליפז התימני ויאמר׃ | 1 |
Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,
| החכם יענה דעת רוח וימלא קדים בטנו׃ | 2 |
Will a wise man give for answer a [mere] breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,
| הוכח בדבר לא יסכון ומלים לא יועיל בם׃ | 3 |
reasoning with improper sayings, and with words wherein is no profit?
| אף אתה תפר יראה ותגרע שיחה לפני אל׃ | 4 |
Hast not thou moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord?
| כי יאלף עונך פיך ותבחר לשון ערומים׃ | 5 |
Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth, neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty.
| ירשיעך פיך ולא אני ושפתיך יענו בך׃ | 6 |
Let thine own mouth, and not me, reprove thee: and thy lips shall testify against thee.
| הראישון אדם תולד ולפני גבעות חוללת׃ | 7 |
What! art thou the first man that was born? or wert thou established before the hills?
| הבסוד אלוה תשמע ותגרע אליך חכמה׃ | 8 |
Or hast thou heard the ordinance of the Lord? or has God used thee as [his] counsellor? and has wisdom come [only] to thee?
| מה ידעת ולא נדע תבין ולא עמנו הוא׃ | 9 |
For what knowest thou, that, we know not? or what understandest thou, which we do not also?
| גם שב גם ישיש בנו כביר מאביך ימים׃ | 10 |
Truly among us [are] both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than thy father.
| המעט ממך תנחמות אל ודבר לאט עמך׃ | 11 |
Thou hast been scourged for [but] few of thy sins: thou hast spoken haughtily [and] extravagantly.
| מה יקחך לבך ומה ירזמון עיניך׃ | 12 |
What has thine heart dared? or what have thine eyes [aimed at],
| כי תשיב אל אל רוחך והצאת מפיך מלין׃ | 13 |
that thou hast vented [thy] rage before the Lord, and delivered such words from [thy] mouth?
| מה אנוש כי יזכה וכי יצדק ילוד אשה׃ | 14 |
For who, being a mortal, [is such] that he shall be blameless? or, [who that is] born of a woman, that he should be just?
| הן בקדשו לא יאמין ושמים לא זכו בעיניו׃ | 15 |
Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him.
| אף כי נתעב ונאלח איש שתה כמים עולה׃ | 16 |
Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.
| אחוך שמע לי וזה חזיתי ואספרה׃ | 17 |
But I will tell thee, hearken to me; I will tell thee now what I have seen;
| אשר חכמים יגידו ולא כחדו מאבותם׃ | 18 |
things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.
| להם לבדם נתנה הארץ ולא עבר זר בתוכם׃ | 19 |
To them alone the earth was given, and no stranger came upon them.
| כל ימי רשע הוא מתחולל ומספר שנים נצפנו לעריץ׃ | 20 |
All the life of the ungodly [is spent] in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered.
| קול פחדים באזניו בשלום שודד יבואנו׃ | 21 |
And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come.
| לא יאמין שוב מני חשך וצפו הוא אלי חרב׃ | 22 |
Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.
| נדד הוא ללחם איה ידע כי נכון בידו יום חשך׃ | 23 |
And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.
| יבעתהו צר ומצוקה תתקפהו כמלך עתיד לכידור׃ | 24 |
Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank.
| כי נטה אל אל ידו ואל שדי יתגבר׃ | 25 |
For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.
| ירוץ אליו בצואר בעבי גבי מגניו׃ | 26 |
And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield.
| כי כסה פניו בחלבו ויעש פימה עלי כסל׃ | 27 |
For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs.
| וישכון ערים נכחדות בתים לא ישבו למו אשר התעתדו לגלים׃ | 28 |
And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away.
| לא יעשר ולא יקום חילו ולא יטה לארץ מנלם׃ | 29 |
Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he shall not cast a shadow upon the earth.
| לא יסור מני חשך ינקתו תיבש שלהבת ויסור ברוח פיו׃ | 30 |
Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off.
| אל יאמן בשו נתעה כי שוא תהיה תמורתו׃ | 31 |
Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity.
| בלא יומו תמלא וכפתו לא רעננה׃ | 32 |
His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish.
| יחמס כגפן בסרו וישלך כזית נצתו׃ | 33 |
And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive.
| כי עדת חנף גלמוד ואש אכלה אהלי שחד׃ | 34 |
For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.
| הרה עמל וילד און ובטנם תכין מרמה׃ | 35 |
And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.
